Fashion

​H&M Group’s Nordic lifestyle brand Arket has entered the Irish market with a physical presence for the first time, opening its new Dublin store this week. Read More

Tobias Klaiber, former CEO of Scholl and senior executive at Aurelius Group, has joined L Catterton as managing director for portfolio operations, reinforcing the fund’s focus on operational excellence and brand growth. Read More

Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to hear a bid to preserve his sweeping tariffs pursued under a 1977 law meant for emergencies. Read More

​The UK’s Office for National Statistics released its retail sales figures for July on Friday and they were generally good but with reasons for caution too. Read More

​In what it’s calling a “season of transformation”, luxe department store Harvey Nichols has unveiled its latest campaign including a collaboration with Jacky Marshall, known as JackyBlue. Read More

The discretionary categories BDO tracks include fashion, homewares and lifestyle, and their 3.9% jump compared strongly to the 0.7% dip this time last year. Read More

J.McLaughlin announced on Wednesday the appointment of Lee AnneHenrico to the role of chief creative officer, where she will oversee the brand’s women’s and men’s design, product conception, creative marketing and more. Read More

UK-based acquisition-hungry baby- and childrenswear business Mori has bought premium baby-changing-bag specialist Storksak as the brand aims to expand in the UK and in the US.  Read More

Unilever will review its top 200 roles for a 25% “refresh”, the consumer goods giant said at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference on Wednesday. Read More

LuxExperience is continuing to work on the integration of its legacy Mytheresa business and its acquired YNAP ops into its group set-up and has announced around 700 job cuts at the latter. Read More